Tessa Majors Murder: Suspect, 14, Is Detained After Lengthy Search
He is believed to have wielded the knife that killed her, the police said.
A 14-year-old was detained in the Bronx on Thursday in the killing of Tessa Majors, the Barnard College student who was stabbed in a park near campus during what was apparently a mugging.
New York City police had been searching for the teenager since the day after the killing on Dec. 11, and officials had taken the unusual step of releasing his photo in an effort to locate him.
Ms. Majors, 18, was attacked by three teenagers in Morningside Park in Manhattan, and the 14-year-old detained on Thursday is believed to have been the one who stabbed her, the police said.
The Police Department’s chief of detectives, Rodney Harrison, announced the detention on Twitter. On Thursday morning, investigators were questioning the boy, whom the authorities did not name, at the 26th Precinct station house in the Morningside Heights neighborhood, near where the attack occurred.
Ms. Majors’s murder jolted a city that has in recent years become accustomed to low rates of violent crime and recalled an era three decades ago, when many parks were considered dangerous to enter after dark.
Ms. Majors, who had moved to New York from Virginia to attend the college months earlier, was walking in Morningside Park the night of Dec. 11 when, the police said, at least three teenagers, ages 13 and 14, tried to rob her.
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